Secret U.S. mission to see you on the dark side of the moon?

NASA has secretly been working on a plan to develop a manned outpost on the far side of the moon, but the lofty plan has been kept quiet until after the presidential election, according to media reports.

According to Space.com, the plan has already been cleared by the Obama administration, but officials kept the plan under wraps until Barack Obama secured a second term in the Oval Office.

The plan would set up a manned station in an area of space called the “earth moon libration point,” former astronaut Leroy Chiao told CNN. The spot is a point in space where the gravitational forces of the moon and Earth are roughly balanced. …